The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Temple Hill Day Program which took place May 28, 1932 on these grounds. At that ceremony, 136 local veterans of World War I were awarded their Purple Heart medals.
The program will include a presentation on the original Temple Hill Day program, the formal awarding of the Purple Heart Medal to a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the official opening of a new rotating exhibit about the Temple Hill Day Program. Following the Temple Hill Day ceremony at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, the New Windsor Cantonment staff will offer a presentation and short walking tour of Temple Hill. The tour will begin in the recreated Temple of Virtue for a presentation on the landmarks of this 1782-83 winter encampment, based upon the Simeon DeWitt map. The tour will continue at the Temple Hill Monument showing its Masonic connections and orienting visitors to the Temple Hill Gate, the location of the Massachusetts hut line, guard huts and the general officer hut locations. It will conclude by showing the location of the speeches delivered May 28, 1932.
Advanced reservations required for the program which will take place in the presentation room at the Hall of Honor as seating is limited. Please call 845-561-1765 to make a reservation
The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is New York State Museum under the jurisdiction of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission administers 29 parks, parkways and historic sites for the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in New York as well as the Palisades Interstate Park and parkway in New Jersey. For more information about The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor visit our website www.thepurpleheart.com or call 845-561-1765